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...The last British governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, said Beijing’s decision to send him was a “stick in the eye” for 140,000 Hongkongers exiled in the UK and was revealing of how the Chinese Communist...
...Collorick, a designer and craftsman who began his career at classical kitchen maker Plain English, named his studio after William Morris’s publishing house....
...Patten is equally blunt....
...But it’s up to William [Shawcross] and his inquiry to judge.”...
...Oxford university’s chancellor, Lord Chris Patten, and vice-chancellor, Dame Louise Richardson, met senior figures at Christ Church this week to urge an end to the stand-off with the dean....
...“Diplomacy is obviously not something that interests David Frost,” said Patten....
...The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic and Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan, William Collins £25/OUP $29.95, 512 pages Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight Back by Nathan Law with Evan...
...In 1973 he was persuaded by William Rees-Mogg to join the Times leader writers in London, known generally as the “college of cardinals”, where his academic background was a natural fit....
...January sees publication of Ramachandra Guha’s Rebels Against the Raj (William Collins, January), the story of the foreign fighters who joined the struggle against the Raj....
...As was to be expected, Prince William has responded to the Dyson revelations with controlled and justified fury....
...Chris Patten, then chairman, fondly remembers Mr Davie’s steely manner with “hotshot presenters”. “Some at the BBC curled their lip at Tim’s commercial background,” he says....
...William “Tony” Keswick, Henry’s father, was mayor of Shanghai’s foreign settlements a hundred years later....
...On which vessel did former governor Chris Patten sail away from Hong Kong following the British handover of the territory to China? Click here for the answers...
...Chris Patten is a former chairman of the Conservative party For the Record , by David Cameron, William Collins, RRP£25, 732 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...He won the race to succeed Tony Hall, ahead of competition from Charlotte Moore, the BBC’s director of content, who had been tipped to become the broadcaster’s first female director-general, William Lewis...
...It did not actually much matter what Tristan Garel-Jones said to Chris Patten, or when exactly Peter Morrison was fast asleep, or the degree to which John Major, her anointed successor, held himself ready...
...Because of Oxford’s collegiate set-up — which its chancellor Chris Patten has likened to the “Austro-Hungarian empire” — there is little the central university can do to influence events....
...Lord Patten said: “I think it would be crazy. I don’t see how an election campaign would increase the Conservative majority, which would be the only point of it....
...friend Gareth Evans, the former Australian foreign minister, took us to the TarraWarra Museum of Art in the Yarra Valley (attached to an excellent winery), where there was a very good exhibition of Fred Williams...
.... ——— ——— Although Mr Green is not officially deputy prime minister, his first-secretary title was given by David Cameron to William Hague and later George Osborne....
...First Confession, by Chris Patten, Allen Lane, RRP£20 A memoir by the politician who presided over the UK’s handover of Hong Kong to China 20 years ago....
...The UK government declined to comment on Lord Patten’s remarks....
...When the former colony’s leading pro-democracy activists came to London this week, Mr Cameron declined to meet them, as did foreign secretary William Hague....
...The Hong Kong Suite was commissioned by Chris Patten, that territory’s last British governor; The Amandla Suite celebrated the trades union merger that created Unison....
...Similarly, Lord Patten said on Thursday the BBC was “both over- and under-managed”....
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